Abrégé des maladies

Abrégé des maladies les plus ordinaires, et de leur différens remèdes. A systematic work, arranged in alphabetical order of diseases. There are a few additions at the end by a later 18th cent. hand.

The MS. can be approximately dated by the reference on p. 95 to the 'Méthode de la pierre de Choisel Jésuite' for treatment of rabies, 'depuis 1749'. Claude de Choisel was also an apothecary, and was sent to India by his Order, and lived fifty years in Pondicherry where he had a Pharmacy. In 1756 he published a 'Nouvelle méthode sûre pour le traitement...de la rage' in Paris, which was translated into English in 1757.